It’s been a full week.

Sometimes you can judge my busyness by the number of blog posts that I am able to send out.  This week I think I only wrote two.

Of course, sometimes the opposite is true.  Sometimes I take the time to write a blog post instead of doing laundry or sweeping the floor or planning school or going to bed on time.

So – basically what I’m saying is – no one knows.  You can’t tell anything.  It’s all a guess.  I’m not even sure myself.

What does it even matter, really?  Besides, it’s Friday and so here we are.

 

 

funny

 

Misquoted and misunderstood song lyrics are one of my favorite genres of humor.

Are they a genre?

Lots of times the kids and I all share the way that we thought a song was going – the words our brains told us we were hearing, despite their high level of nonsense or their completely illogical nature.  And then, after we share what we thought we heard, we can’t seem to ever sing the song again without singing it the incorrect way.  It’s how many family jokes have developed.  We think one song is saying “beef, beef stew” in a gentle and crooning manner.  Another favorite is “if you need a wombat, just use mine” even though it’s highly improbable that any artist wrote a serious lyric about a wombat.  Another one we’ve misquoted for years is “are you caught in hurricane?” for this meaningful and inspirational song that we basically just ruin.

Driving home from one the many activities of our lives, we had a friend in the car who shared his misunderstood song lyric.  The song says “I’ve got that sunshine in my pocket …” but our young friend was convinced that instead it was sung like this – “I’ve got that sunshine in my backside”.

Please tell us your favorite misunderstood lyrics.  

 

fashionable

 

I don’t even care how many times I talk about earrings in this space.  Earrings are my favorites.  Earrings and boots.  I have no explanation as to why this is true.  I don’t try to understand everything.

Noonday has a new line out apparently and in the last week I saw two of my friends wearing what I know will become some of my new favorite earrings for myself.  (When I get out of this expensive month of back to school August and decide how to spend the birthday money I keep hoarding.)

 

These have that touch of metallic which I just keep loving and they are light enough for me to wear while riding a horse or zip lining through the tree tops or, you know, all of my regular workaday activities.

 

flavorful

 

I knew it was bound to happen.  The end was inevitable.

This week I finished my last cup of tea from the box of tea that I purchased in Colorado at Celestial Seasonings that quickly became my favorite tea.

Fireside Vanilla Spice.

 

 

I wept a cup of tea-sized tears as I sipped the last delicious bit.

The description online calls it a “taste of pure coziness”.  Man – they’re so right.  It is my nearly nightly ritual to have a cup of tea after the kids are in bed.  I sit in the same chair and I work while I sip.  Occasionally I skip the working part and hop right in bed with my cup of cozy and a good book.  (That’s my nightlife, people.  It’s as glamorous and as perfect as it sounds. I’m not complaining.)

I know I can order more tea online – although I have to buy $49 worth to get free shipping.  Even for me, that’s a whole lotta tea, folks.  And I’ve grown to abhor paying a shipping fee.

But it’s just a little extra sad knowing that I purchased it on our Colorado journey.  I guess that’s just another reason to head back west again as soon as humanly possible.

 

faithful

 

Faithful is a God who puts people in my path who will share their own uncomfortable story when I most need it.

 

feels

 

Watching my girl succeed on stage.

 

 

 

Watching my brother play with my children.

 

 

 

Watching my “baby” sleep.

 

 

 

 

 

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